Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 20, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 20, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.79%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Park National Corp.	PRK	1.10B	16.73	1.69	3.98	5.25%
Eni SpA	E	88.27B	30.75	1.10	0.54	4.61%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.75B	19.55	1.72	0.82	4.43%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	3.26B	64.97	2.77	6.16	4.29%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	5.28B	-	3.69	10.63	3.21%
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.	MXIM	9.11B	21.14	3.49	3.74	3.07%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	25.33B	8.58	1.63	1.00	2.58%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.48B	14.78	1.97	0.91	2.56%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	3.08B	28.28	1.24	0.63	2.52%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.84B	28.60	2.09	1.12	2.41%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	21.60B	6.97	1.21	0.16	2.02%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.64B	46.08	0.93	4.77	1.67%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	5.31B	19.35	2.60	1.42	1.64%
Tenaris SA	TS	25.53B	15.18	2.18	2.34	1.20%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	788.30M	7.47	1.44	1.36	0.94%
Luxottica Group SpA	LUX	25.83B	34.34	4.58	2.78	0.90%
Gerdau S.A.	GGB	11.47B	16.27	0.84	0.61	0.60%

Hurricane Sandy Destroys - These 22 Stocks Benefit Most From The Monster Storm Of The Millenium

The hurricane Sandy is forecasted as one of the worst storms ever. Whatever will happen, the stock market will survive and business goes on. I researched some interesting companies that could earn some extra money due to the after-effects of the storm Sandy. We have classified our results in industries and introduced some of the major leaders. These are the results:

1. Home Improvement

People who lost their homes and mobiles need to repurchase these products. Companies within the home improvement industry should benefit from the hurricane. The major leaders are Home Depot (HD) and Lowe’s (LOW).

2. Dining Restaurants

Humans who have left their homes need to stay away from home at friends or near family members. For a few days, diner restaurants could make some extra profits from this. Starbucks (SBUX), Dunkin Brands (DNKN) and McDonalds (MCD) are basic investments but a bit too big and well diversified that the super storm should have a significant influence.

3. Travel Companies

If people leave their homes, they need to choose a provider if they don’t have an own car. Lodging stocks, auto rents, Airlines, railroads are main benefiters.

4. Insurer

Insurer should make a loss. If the damages are higher than expected, reinsurance companies should be the biggest losers. If the damages are lower than estimated, insurer could benefit, especially some players from the property and casualty insurance industry. Market leader are Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B), American International (AIG), Travelers (TRV) or even Allstate (ALL). 

5. Consumer Goods

People need to buy extra storage of food, water and batteries. Companies like Procter&Gamble (PG) have a big relationship to the consumer battery industry (Duracell). Otherwise, the company should benefit from replacement buys of flooded goods.

6. Diversified Machinery

Some companies from the diversified machinery industry have products against flooding. Companies like Xylem (XYL) and PentAir (PNR) produce pumps used in dewatering, drainage and other applications.

7. Stores

Grocery and discount stores should benefit from hamster purchases. Wal-Mart (WMT), Family Dollar Stores (FDO), Target (TGT) or Costco Wholesale (COST) are basic investments.

8. Media Companies

People are sitting in front of their media devices like smart phones, radio, television etc. Facebook (FB), News Corp (NWSA), NY Times (NYT) or even CBS Corporation (CBS) should generate a higher attention.

9. General Building

Cement companies like Eagle Materials (EXP), homebuilder, raw material companies should have a special bull market. Companies like Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN) have a great market position.

Whatever will happen, nothing is so bad to make too fast decisions. But an overreaction could give investors a great opportunity for long-term investors. These are my personal favorites to watch:

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Between October 15-21, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex-dividend dates. The ex-dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading week.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks between October15-21, 2012. In total, 52 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 25 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.42%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Hospitality Properties Trust	HPT	2.91B	23.07	0.99	2.31	7.65%
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	3.24B	128.80	0.74	2.76	7.64%
Senior Housing Properties Trust	SNH	3.88B	21.36	1.48	7.12	6.91%
Targa Resources Partners LP	NGLS	3.90B	20.93	2.68	0.59	5.99%
Teekay Corporation	TK	2.14B	-	1.61	1.09	4.06%
Procter & Gamble Co.	PG	187.34B	21.85	2.94	2.24	3.31%
Vale S.A.	VALE	93.73B	5.93	1.17	1.74	3.23%
Targa Resources Corp.	TRGP	2.12B	65.82	15.11	0.32	3.15%
The Washington Post Company	WPO	2.67B	27.42	1.03	0.66	2.73%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	54.10B	9.26	3.40	0.82	2.51%
Colgate-Palmolive Co.	CL	51.16B	21.36	22.20	3.01	2.30%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	7.58B	16.02	2.63	0.93	2.08%
Graco Inc.	GGG	2.86B	21.12	7.33	3.03	1.90%
Xylem Inc.	XYL	4.57B	16.30	2.35	1.19	1.64%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	2.53B	9.34	2.41	1.01	1.42%
Carpenter Technology Corp.	CRS	2.80B	20.44	2.43	1.38	1.41%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	59.90B	16.64	1.58	0.51	1.38%
Core Laboratories NV	CLB	4.90B	24.19	22.26	5.12	1.08%
PerkinElmer Inc.	PKI	3.39B	-	1.80	1.67	0.94%
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	PIR	2.00B	11.41	4.35	1.26	0.85%